The road to hell, as they say, is paved with good intentions. Apparently, that’s true. A friend of mine recently pointed me to a website carrying an English translation of the Quran, thinking it would do me good to read some of it. I checked the link, and then shortened...
Incredibly, all the ‘news’ networks are flooded with items about the Isra…the Zionist soldier held by the Palestinians. Not surprisingly, most of these news items completely neglect to mention the fact that the Zionist occupation is holding and has been holding more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners for years, most of...
I remember hearing this song ages ago – lately I downloaded it again, just for kicks – I’d missed the chorus. This time, I actually paid attention to the rest of the lyrics…well worth quoting in full: Here we go againHere we go go goTo the temple of consumptionGet your...
One can only hope that the title of the ‘news’ article ‘Creativity older than thought’ was intended as a bad pun. Otherwise, well… In any case, the article goes on to claim that due to the discovery of very early forms of jewelry, the ‘modern’ mind as we know it...
“Every year, millions of animals, including rabbits, raccoons, and foxes, are painfully caught in steel-jaw traps, where many will chew off their own feet in an attempt to escape. Some die of blood loss, while others succumb to infection or simply starve or freeze to death. Animals often languish for...
This is just a quick refresher, since memory seems to be in short supply. When the World Trade Center in New York went down, killing around 3,000 people – the reactions in Tehran, Iran were as follows: The Iranians, over 1 million of them, were on the streets of Tehran,...
You’d think their voices would be better heard. In any case – here’s an interesting read: Military Men Who Oppose Neo-Con Warmongering Under Attack Is anybody listening? Or is everybody too busy defending Rumsfeld? A man who claimed to accept ‘full responsibility’ for the tortures and abuses of Abu Ghraib...
“Veteran journalist John Pilger recently wrote about one of PNAC’s founding members, Richard Perle: “I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan, and when he spoke about ‘total war,’ I mistakenly dismissed him as mad,” Pilger wrote. “He recently used the term again in describing America’s ‘war on terror.’ ‘No...
Anybody know why Rumsfeld won’t sign this letter? Seems simple enough,...